The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-04-23
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BrOadhinS New York Letter.
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will carry anguish to thees-
ands Of hearts through the length and |
breadth OF the land, and dim with tears
thousands Of eyes that never looked upon
her face,
Her alEe was one long 6enediction; her
death Is little hess than a public calamity.
Goodness was born in heEand her pathway
through iife was rich in every blessing.
Born and reared among the rich and the
great, inheriting wealth beyond the dreams
of avarice, while maintaining her station
with generous and honorable liberality, 1t
was in the homes of the poor that she
shone like an angel of light scattering
blessings with a lavish hand, and never
there have been In our country who en-
joyed great wealth and had unbounded OPP
portunity, bat no woman in our history, for
charity and wealth conjelned, will bear
gan, whose marvellous collection of bric-a-
brac and pictures brought over million of
dollars, in early life had felt the pinching
pangs of poverty. The widow of the late
A. t. Stewart was the daughter of a we'll
to-do merchant, but the Clinches we're far
from rich. One would have thought that
their natural affiliations would have been
with the poor. They both died worth
many millions; each had splendid collec-
tion of pictures; but they passed away
leaving no charitable record behind them.
The grass is scarcely green upon their
graves, and New York forgets that they
have ever been.
Not so with Catharine Wolfe. The
blessedness of her life is glori6ed in her
death, and she lives for all time by her
generous benefactions, among those who
have earned the city's undying gratitude
and love. Her collection of pictures, do
mated TO the Metropolitan Art Museum,
are worth fully million of dollars; but
her splendid example will be worth many
millions more to our children and our chill
dren's children for all time.
1t is not otter that such an assembage is
called together as that which stood around
the bier of this dead saint. The wealth
represented there was not far from thous-
and millions, and among them all there
was not mere cold conventional courtesy,
but pure unfeigned grief, which none
sought to hide. The task imposed upon
Bishop Potter was pitifui In the extreme.
The inanimate clay before him had been
to him dear daughter--a loving sister--a
constant friend; and as heread the beauti-
full litany of the dead, tears blinded his
eyes and grief choked his utterance. The
tears of the sorrowing priest were contagi-
Gus, and in all the vast multitude there
was scarcely dry eye. If 1t be possible
that the spirits of the departed take cog
nizancc of what passes here, she could wish
for no holier tribute than that with whicr
loving hearts laid her to rest. The bitter
est loss falls upon the poor. What she die
for them will never be knewn until tn,
LAMBS Book of Life is opened, and thu
widow and the orphan whom she succoret
stand as her Attesting witnesses before tn,
Great White Throne.
Though done with faltering hand anC
heavy heart, 1t is nevertheless gracious
and holy task to write the obituary of on,
of whom nothing can be said but good
She never married, The motherly low
with which her heart abounded was ex
pended on the children of others, who re
member her name with blessing. In tn
language of our own sweet poet Whittier:
10 well she kept her genial mood,
And simple faith in maidenhood,
Before her still the cloudland lay,
The mirage loOmed across her way;
The morning dew that dries so soon
With others, glistened to her noon."
And it lasted undimmed till the glory of he
setting sun. Just in life, just in death
} there will be no unseemly contest over tn
disposition of her vast possessions. Tn
church she loved so well was bountifull
remembered. Her immediate relatives al
received their dues with interest; the poo
thousands; and the city, enriched by he
liberal bounty, will bless her name for age
yet to come.
And so with fearful eyes and achinj
hearts, but with unfalterng trust that al
will be well with her forevermore, w
humbly consign her to the care of Hin
!. whose handmaiden she was, whose worl
she did, and in the hope of whose blesset
communion she lived and died. Like
light placed upon mighty hilltop where /
can be seen of all men, her bright exampl
will shine down through the ages DER tn
tide OF time, beacon of love and hope
Wherever virgin purity is honored, wher
ever human charity is loved, her memor
will be prized as one of the brightest jewel
of her sex, and an homer to the womanhoo,
of the world.
Passion week brought Lent to close, an,
the glory of Easter was manifest not onl
in the churches but in the streets and in tn
/ stoies-the tableaux in many of the win
dows being wonderful works of art. On
! of the wealthiest Jewish firms of Brook
: lyn, at heavy outlay, prepared tableau O
the resurrection, with life.size figures, an
hundreds Of stores through New York an
l Brooklyn had windows equally elaborat
: and costly. The music in all the churche
! was magnificent. For many years ther
( has been quite rivalry in the maintenance
c Of church choirs, and It reached such
4 point that finally people went to church t
; hear the singing instead of the preaching
! and the minister of fashionable uptow
4 church took umbrage at this and al,
] charged the choir. While all the churche
; have established musical programmes &
1 Easter, the finest music is TO be heard /
= the Catholic and Episcopal churches, an
E the Jewish Temple Emanuel OH Fifth Ave
. nue.. The feast Of the Passover and Easte
E falling togstheT, is the one church hollda
} that units the old and the new. By con